Movies: Robert Benchley
- 1928
The Treasurer's Report (1928)
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Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects....
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- 1936
How to Vote (1936)
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A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled....
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- 1935
How to Break 90 at Croquet (1935)
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Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet....
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- 1938
Music Made Simple (1938)
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Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar....
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- 1940
Home Movies (1940)
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A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies....
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- 1924
Second Youth (1924)
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1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne....
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- 1944
Important Business (1944)
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Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."...
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- 1936
How to Train a Dog (1936)
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This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog....
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- 1938
How to Raise a Baby (1938)
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American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father....
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- 1939
The Day of Rest (1939)
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Joe Doakes tries to take a day off....
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- 1929
Furnace Trouble (1929)
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Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short....
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- 1929
Stewed, Fried and Boiled (1929)
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Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short....
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- 1929
Lesson No. 1 (1929)
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Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short....
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- 1938
The Courtship of the Newt (1938)
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Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation....
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- 1942
Nothing But Nerves (1942)
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After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink his coffee, and he thinks the arrival of some plumbers is just a giant conspiracy to keep him unnerve...
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- 1928
The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
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Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live specimens, he has prepared a series of pictures of his subjects. He explains that...
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- 1941
Waiting for Baby (1941)
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Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers....
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- 1937
The Romance of Digestion (1937)
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A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and digesting food. The on-screen narrator begins with teeth, "little sentinels" as he calls them, and the...
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- 1938
An Evening Alone (1938)
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Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone....
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- 1937
How to Start the Day (1937)
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Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right....
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